Richard D Katcher is a graduate of New York University School of Law, LLB 1966. . He is also a graduate of Lafayette College, BA 1963. Mr Katcher has been a partner in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz since 1971. He was chairman of the firm’s management committee from 1997 to 2003. He concentrates on mergers and acquisitions and corporate and securities law and governance. Member of the Board of Trustees of New York University; former Chairman of the Special Committee on Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Control Contests of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; Member of the Securities Regulation Committee of the New York State Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.